The Antagonists

  David Stern The Antagonists Creation Year: 2024 Dimensions: Height: 65 in (165 cm)Width: 56 in (142 cm) Medium: Acrylic and pigments on cotton Movement & Style: Contemporary Abstract   David Stern (Germany, b. 1956) Acrylics on cotton. Hand signed by artist, certificate of authenticity available. Key words used to describe this work by David: abstract figuration, expressionism cabalistic, mysticism, painting, action, pigments, acrylics. David Stern was born in Essen, Germany and lives in New York. Stern has referred to himself as an “action painter,” echoing the artistic legacies of New York School painters Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline. Yet his human forms reach further back to histories of portraiture. After an apprenticeship as a sign painter Stern attended the Dortmund Fachhochschule für Design and Art[1] (1975–79) and the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (1980–82). He then taught painting at the Dortmund Fachhochschule für Design and Art, while he develope